When I first heard of this I got excited, but I am also concerned that it is a short-sighted effort to make a quasi attempt to appease the health conscious.
The menu board cannot possibly address many of the critical components to good nutrition. Simply listing calories and amount of fats is not enough.
There are so many other potentially hazardous ingredients that go into fast food.
I eat locally grown, natural and organic foods. I eat grass finished beef and buffalo. I eat wild caught Alaskan fish and supplement with molecularly distilled fish oil.
I rarely shop chain grocery stores and do most of my shopping at Farmers Markets and Natural food stores and co-ops.
I don't worry about salmonella outbreaks because I know where and how my tomatoes and jalapenos and spinach are grown.
It's not FATS that cause havoc, it's the type of fats and the balance of the fats. It's not the carbs that cause havoc, but the types of carbs.
Fast foods are fast foods...whether you eat a 1200 calorie mondo cheeseburger or a 450 calorie junior mondo cheeseburger, it is still a saturated fat laden, sodium infused dietary time bomb, and coke or diet coke... well, they both have high phosphate levels and leach calcium out of your bones, and one has potentially hazardous fake sweeteners as well.
It may be a step in the right direction, but I hope it doesn't give the fast food feasters a false sense of security. America hasn't got it right yet.
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